On 6/30/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 30/06/06, Domas Mituzas
<midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But still, it is a eye candy, that requires quite
a lot of resources...
You call it eye candy, I call it an interesting and potentially damn
useful feature idea. Running a web site that gets upwards of ten
thousand odd hits per second, allowing any old web user to edit it,
etc. etc. also requires resources.
I think this blame map idea is a hell of a lot more than eye candy,
and would be a massively useful addition to Wikipedia, well worth
investing time and effort, and possibly new hardware on. It would
really help dealing with vandalism, hoaxing, unsourced statements and
probably lots of other problems we haven't even realised yet. Hell, it
would even make it easier to attribute unsigned posts to talk pages.
So performance is an issue. When is it not?
I love the fact that we have server admins telling us not to worry too
much about the performance side of things :)
Steve